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[1] [2] [4] Sill course: Stone masonry courses at the windowsill, projected out from the wall. [1] Split course: Units are cut down so they are smaller than their normal thickness. [1] Springing course: Stone masonry on which the first stones of an arch rest. [1] Starting course: The first course of a unit, usually referring to shingles. [1]
English cross bond has courses of stretchers and headers, but with the alternating stretcher courses offset by half a brick. Flemish bond consists of alternating stretchers and headers in each course. Header bond has courses of headers offset by half a brick. Stack bond consists of bricks laid directly on top of one another with joints aligned.
The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada. In 2004, MasterFormat was updated and expanded to 50 Divisions. [1]
Their nomadic lifestyle led to temporary and short-lived buildings leading to a lack of surviving evidences of construction. However, it is believed that the earliest evidence of construction in the world is the 1.8 million year-old stone circle found at Olduvai Gorge representing the remains of a windbreak. [3]
12th-century fortifications (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in the 12th century" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
Construction engineering, also known as construction operations, [1] is a professional subdiscipline of civil engineering that deals with the designing, planning, construction, and operations management of infrastructure such as roadways, tunnels, bridges, airports, railroads, facilities, buildings, dams, utilities and other projects. [2 ...
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One of the two kinds of course in this family of bonds is called a stretching course, and this typically comprises nothing but stretchers at the face from quoin to quoin. The other kind of course is the heading course, and this usually consists of headers, with two queen closers—one by the quoin header at either end—to generate the bond. [41]